Having heard of this movie all my life I have finally decided to watch it and to be honest...a bit of a let down.

Can it be entertaining and visually impressive? I would say yes, even though the CGI is starting to show its years.

Is the main idea of the movie good? Absolutely, I love a good old alien invasion movie, man they don't make them as much these days unfortunately.

Now, for the big question : does the plot make ANY sense, most of the time? I'm afraid it doesn't.
I found the general behaviour of people very illogical, like the very first scene of an alien coming up from the ground. A damn church is getting demolished by something coming out of the ground and you are just standing near by and watching? I would Usain Bolt the shit out of there.

Also, wtf where the aliens doing? First they were just vaporizing people, then the started abducting them and apparently drinking blood out of them, then we see that they actually just trap people in cages and absorb them later, and then all of a sudden they die.

The movie started with a dude saying yeeeh the aliens are plotting in the dark we will not see it coming but honestly that might have been the most inefficient attack in the history of attacks. The only smart move was making all technology useless initially, but that apparently wasn't a problem anymore when one (1) car got fixed for the protagonist, or when the army needed to fight back.

At first the intent seemed to be simple genocide, why not bomb the shit out of the cities instantly then? Instead they go around on big squids vaporizing humans ONE BY ONE, yeah that must be fast.

Then you see them drinking people and you say ok I guess they need humans for some sort of purpose, maybe they feed off of us? But then why vaporize those people earlier, were they not...tasty?

I get that the threat has to be "escapeable", otherwise the protagonist just gets nuked/killed/eaten in the first second of the movie and the credits roll. I just didn't find logical how it was handled for the most part.

Also, both kids are insufferable as characters, Jesus.